#Logitech keyboard on mac command key for mac#
#Logitech keyboard on mac command key drivers#
#Logitech keyboard on mac command key full size#

What if you donвЂ™t have a USB keyboard lying around and youвЂ™ve just got your Macbook and a K380? Your first thought might be to use the fn + cursor key combo thatвЂ™s available on the Macbook keyboard, but Logi Options doesnвЂ™t recognise that as Page Up/Down/Home/End.

The keys also donвЂ™t repeat, so you need to repeatedly press the function key if you want to keep scrolling through your document. Amazingly, this worked! ItвЂ™s not as convenient as being able to use the function keys and itвЂ™s harder to find without looking at the keyboard, but much better than having no access to the function whatsoever. If you happen to have a full-size USB keyboard sitting around, you can plug it in and then press one of the Home/End/Page Up/Page Down keys when defining the keystroke in Logi Options.

Discussions on Reddit mentioned that it should be possible to map the F4-F7 function keys to a user-defined keystroke.

I might hold off on the Beta version for nowвЂ¦ Fully customisable, as long as you only want to customise these keys.ДЄfter abandoning the Options+ adventure, itвЂ™s back to Logi Options again. I ended up deleting it, which broke Logi Options for my keyboard and finally required removing all trace of the application, preference files, and then uninstalling the original Logi Options and reinstalling Logi Options again. It did make life more confusing though! The new Beta doesnвЂ™t support the original MX Master so I was left with Logi Options to manage the mouse and Logi Options+ to manage the keyboard. I tried installing to see if that improved the situation with the keyboard, but it didnвЂ™t make any difference and didnвЂ™t appear to offer any new keyboard functionality over the original application. Logi Options happily informed me that thereвЂ™s a new version of Logi Options called Logi Options+ Beta. Removing this wasnвЂ™t really an option as I also have an MX Master mouse, and removing Logi Options disables a lot of the more advanced functionality of the mouse.

#Logitech keyboard on mac command key drivers#

Some of this functionality appears to originate from the Logi Options software: the helper application and drivers from Logitech for configuring their devices. On the Macbook theyвЂ™re available by pressing fn and then one of the cursor keys, but on the K380 pressing fn + up or fn + down adjusts brightness and fn + left and fn + right selects the word to the left or right. IвЂ™m missing these keys on the new keyboard, so I looked for options to bring them back. At first glance it looks like the keyboard has a very similar key layout to a Macbook, but there are some differences: thereвЂ™s a dedicated delete key, fn and ctrl are swapped, and (as far as I can tell) thereвЂ™s no key for page up, page down, home or end. The keyboard itself is around the same physical size as the built-in Macbook keyboard, although it has round keys that take a little bit of getting used to. I'm not so sure about the blue, but strangely it coordinates well with the card reader my bank gave me for logging in. Here's my blue K380: this is the cross-platform version with a UK keyboard layout. I bought an MX Master mouse years ago which has been fantastic, so I thought I should try a Logitech keyboard to see how they compare.

#Logitech keyboard on mac command key for mac#

ItвЂ™s reasonably cheap (around ВЈ35), offered support for Mac and PC layouts and can pair with up to 3 devices at once.

#Logitech keyboard on mac command key full size#

After years of using a full size (and very old) Apple USB keyboard for my Mac, I recently bought a Logitech K380 bluetooth keyboard to try something smaller that would take up less space on the desk.